How about the dog ate my fortitude?

“Bush’s push on immigration tests his base,” according to the New York Times. In a parenthetical update on National Review’s challenge to the Wall Street Journal for a moderated debate on the proposed immigration bill, the Times reports that Journal editor Paul Gigot has rejected the NR challenge:

The Journal editorial page editor, Paul Gigot, dismissed the challenge, saying National Review writers had not accepted offers to appear on The Journal